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vABEL L. HURTT, oF MONTICELLQ INDIANA. Leners 'Patent tra. 90,001, academy 11, 1869.

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My improvement relates to either-.tubs or boilers for cleansing clothes, and consists in constructing the case, or shell of the tubs or boilers with pipes, which receive the water at or near the bottom, and conducting it upwards, discharge it at the top upon the clothes, and combining therewith a perforated diaphragm, resting upon springs, and another 'perforated diaphragm, to which a reciprocating motion is communicated, by the action of .which the water may be caused to flow through the vertical pipes, as will be hereinafterset forth.

In thea'nnexed drawings- A-is the shell of a boiler or tub, which may be con'- structed of any suitable material, andfin any shape desired.

To this shell a vertical pipe or series of vertical pipes, IB, may be attached, which open into the bottomof thetub or boiler, and extending upwards in `or along the side of the shell; either in or outside thereof', aremadeto discharge into thetop of thetub or boiler, so that the water iowing through said pipes shall flow down through the clothes, and, by the ac-, and ,carry away any im-' tion of its current, dissolve purities therein.

The clothes are placed upon la perforated plate, or 4 diaphragm,`fitted loosely within the tub or boiler, and resting upon the spiral springs D D, which support it above the'bottom of the tub or boiler, so as to leave an open space for the water below said plate. Said perforations" are merely for the purpose of allowing the water to escape freely from the clothes, vand any formation ofthe plate `which will permit the same h flow of the water may be substituted' for the perforation. This plate is intended to `support the clothes.

Over the clothes is another vsimilar plate, or diaf The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and makingi part of the same.

phragm, E, to which a reciprocating motion may be given by means of the rod F and lever G, the latter being hinged to one side of the boiler or tub, or by any other convenient and equivalent means. The

connecting-rod may be made or attached in such' a manner that it may be made longer or shorter, as may be required, for its convenient operation with a larger or lesserquantity of clothing. l f 1 i f It will be apparent that the above-describedmachine may beused either as a wash-boiler, or as a tub for washing clothes. In the former case, the heat' may be partly used to cause the circulation in the manner` common in automatic boilers and washers in ordinary .use, but such boilers .will not perfectly perform the duty within reasonable time, and thel action may be hastened by using the reciprocating plate to. compress l the clothes, thereby, `at the same time, expelling the water rapidly therefrom, and producing a consequent increased action upon the impurities therein contained, and also by pressing the clothes and daphragms npon\ the watercontained in the open space'below the plate force it upward through the pipesv B,'in a strong current, so that it shall fall upon ,the clothes insincreased quantities., In a wash-tub, the same mechanical action will cause the water lto ilow through the pipes and produce the same action upon the clothes, thereby rapidly cleansing the clothes without rubbing them. 1

I do not, therefore, limit myclaim to the applicaf v `tion of the principle of my improvement to either a tub orwash-boiler, as itis equally applicablev to either. I do not claim the construction of at'uh or boiler with vertical pipes opening from the bottom vand into the top, through which a current of water may be made to iiow'by the action of heat only', but

What'I claim Las my invention, and` desire to secure by LettersPatent, is`

The combination of the case A, pipes B, plates O and E, and springs D,arranged to operate substantially in the 4manner and for the purpose set forth. In testimony whereof; I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two .subscribing wimtnesses'.

" y ABEL L. HURTT. Witnesses:

AR. MASON,

'0. F. CLAUsEN. 

